From the financial year 2018-2019, long term capital gains above Rs. one lakh from stocks and equity mutual funds are taxed at the rate of 10%. The assessment year 2019-2020 is the first time when taxpayers will have to report equity LTCG in schedule CG of ITR2. However, since the income tax department did not…
Continue reading →Yes, NRIs can invest in PPF accounts that were opened when they were resident Indians in 2020. They will get the same interest rate as everyone else. The confusion arose when the ministry of finance announced in October 2017 that subscribers should close their PPF accounts when they become non-residents. However, in a circular dated…
Continue reading →This time on reader story, we have an account of old share certificates revealed by the Kerala flood and how FB group Asan Ideas for Wealth admin Ashal Jauhari, helped a reader (who prefers anonymity) convert them into Demat form. More such stories from the archives: How I transferred my home loan from LICHFL to…
Continue reading →If you explore the list of multicap mutual funds, something strange might catch your eye. ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund started in October 1994 has only an AUM of about 3600 Crores. Let us find out how this fund has performed keeping in mind its evolution over time. ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund: History Some mutual funds…
Continue reading →My mom had ear surgery a few months ago. The fee for the surgeon and the anaesthetist was surprisingly low! The former getting about Rs. 11,000 and the latter about Rs. 4,500. Is that low? Or is that high considering that both would do about 3-4 such surgeries a day and about 8-10 a week?…
Continue reading →Do you have stock options from your employer? Then you are likely to be overexposed to individual stocks. That is the bulk of your portfolio could be from just one or two shares. This is a huge concentration risk and must be handled systematically. Since I know many readers suffer from this problem, I requested…
Continue reading →The latest freefincal mutual fund portfolio overlap tool allows you to compare five mutual funds at once to check for common stocks! Since Moneycontrol had changed its layout, this tool has been written from the ground up. Users will now have to select equity or debt as fund type before running the comparison. Update April 2022: This…
Continue reading →This is a review of ICICI Prudential Multi-Asset Fund. We explain why the low volatility of this fund makes it a good choice for new investors. Prior to the SEBI categorization rules kicked in, this was known as ICICI Dynamic Plan fund. This was classified by the AMC as an “open-ended diversified flexi-cap opportunities fund”….
Continue reading →The reason I speak before employees is not to teach them money management (no such lofty ideas please) but to learn common practices from them. Real people behave very differently from an Excel sheet! During the course of my talk, I say something like, “we do not know what to do our salary minus expenses,…
Continue reading →“Reader story” is a series where we feature the money management journey of freefincal readers. This week Rakesh Gurbani explains how he got his life in order and is ready to take on his financial goals with confidence. You can access the full archive of all past posts. If you are interested in sharing your story,…
Continue reading →Smallcase is a basket of stocks selected by an algorithm based on model, theme, sector or smart beta. In this review, we discuss what you need to know before investing in such an idea. Investing in a basket of stocks is a feature that many brokers have. Smallcase is perhaps the first instance in India…
Continue reading →Bond defaults and downgrades are becoming daily occurrences and these would only increase if we do not see corporate earnings driven stock market movement. The latest is Reliance Home Fin & Reliance Commercial Fin. Each time there is a change in the credit rating of a bond, the NAV of the debt funds that hold…
Continue reading →What is bravery? Instinctively doing the right thing when danger strikes unexpectedly is bravery. When there is no danger, anyone can claim that they are brave. It is only during the actual moment of peril do we know how brave we really are. Well, my point is, asking someone “how brave are you”, is the same…
Continue reading →This week, let us look at Kotak Emerging Equity Scheme a mid cap scheme launched in March 2007 with a current AUM of about 4000 Crores (7th the mid cap segment). If someone from Kotak AMC is reading this, please recognise that your website is badly broken. I cannot get to this schemes page, cannot…
Continue reading →The importance of the banking sector in providing stability and growth to an economy is something that even a non-expert can intuitively understand. Among their many roles, the one most relevant for an investor is funding both trade, enterprise, businesses and consumerism. We recently discussed MNC Funds as an alternative to large cap fund. So…
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